COASTER1921

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Putin also was able to only serve for two terms, so he replaced himself with a crony until he could change the law to remove term limits...

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (12 children)

NYT forecast is 90% Trump now. It's crazy that anyone would vote for him, really shows that policy plays no part in politics. It'll be interesting to see how he tears down the judicial system to remove the many charges against him.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Millionare in assets is vastly different than $1 million per year in income. It's pretty much a requirement to have $1 million in assets to be able to retire lately and assuming years of compounding growth in the market this is pretty easily attainable by retirement for most (I know this is a big assumption but our whole economy is built on it).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I thought the top 0.1% was more like $3 million. Either way it's still an incredibly large amount of money for 1 in 1000 people to be making. With 131 million households that's 131000 households making more than $14 million per year which is WILD. One in a thousand isn't that uncommon, yet I'd never guess who were making that kind of money. They must just be living in completely separate spaces.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I don't know what's up with the algorithm pushing these lately. If it's a video with 4 views from a channel with no subscribers I'm probably not interested in it. Sometimes they have a good thumbnail/title so I give them a chance but 9/10 times it's terrible. Also often extremely right wing for whatever reason.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like Russia is already expecting hyperinflation

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Voting is already ongoing in many states, today crossed 40 million early votes. For the next 1.5wk avoiding politics and crazy advertisements for/against candidates is impossible if you live in the US. Given the size of the country and its worldwide economic dominance it's impossible to not be impacted by US politics regardless of where you live.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I thought that without blocking cookies the tracking is still active, even if you're not being served ads from them. In those same LinkedIn privacy settings you're automatically opted into having your data used to train AI models.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 9 months ago (5 children)

LinkedIn has some of the most obfuscated and complex ad targeting settings I've encountered. There needs to be a retirement to have a one click solution to disable ad personalization.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I miss the old topic specific internet forums so badly, but having tons of different accounts made the barrier to entry high so I understand why they died out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Personally I've never had any issues with lines despite living in a heavily blue district. It's worth noting that as election day gets closer more early voting locations open, voting the first day of early voting sounds like a bad idea in terms of lines. Obviously this isn't going to be the case for every district, but when only a handful of places are open for the first day of early voting it's inevitable they'll be packed.

I personally have bigger issues with the fact that the majority of polling locations are churches and that political signage is allowed outside of them.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (5 children)

We're not possibly going to flip but hopefully with abortion now restricted we'll be closer to a swing state than in quite a while. The biggest problem is how heavily gerrymandered the state is, there are some crazy looking districts to get some parts of urban areas to vote red. A simple majority of votes really won't do it in the state of Texas.

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